Word: paunch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dawson's Yarrow circle spread to the British court. King Edward VII had digestive troubles-aftermath of typhoid fever and of his continual gustatory excess. Dr. Dawson, as consultant physician, kept the royal paunch content. He became personal physician (1907) to George V, who then was the Prince of Wales. Upon George's coronation (1910) Dr. Dawson continued with greater prestige as his personal physician. The royal family frequently had great difficulty disciplining their heir, whom they familiarly still call David but whom subjects-apparent call Edward. At such times the King would call on Dr. Dawson...
...ebony finish, trimmed in colors to match any wall. It is four feet long, of regulation height (43 in.) and about six glasses deep. Beneath the bar is a serving shelf large enough to hold four dozen quart bottles. The bar itself is concave to admit the paunch of an old-time 'tender. When not in use the whole thing can be folded up, stowed away in a closet if, of course, the bottles have first been disposed...
...Armenian Greek in his 60's, he has a domed, shaven head, piercing dark eyes in an oval face, a walrus mustache, bull neck, a paunch, huge muscles. He is unaccountable, unpredictable. A clever man, he acts sometimes like a lunatic, sometimes like a genius, sometimes like a child. He loves to laugh, apparently enjoys being angry...
...doorways bearing armfuls of documents. Typists rattled their keys with a triumphant staccato. In a high-ceiled inner room overlooking Trinity Church's grimy spire, an elderly man with thin white hair, a well-trimmed white beard parted in the middle, good solid shoulders and a small paunch, sat bolt upright in a stiff high-backed chair. The pivot of all the commotion, he was intensely busy?and intensely happy. Within a few days, God willing, he would become the eleventh Chief Justice...
First article was headed "Tsaa-a, Tsaa-a, Tsaa-a," a phrase cryptic until from subhead and text the reader learned that "Tsaa-a" is the cry of the buyer of pigs in the great basal U. S. industry of Packing, which the article expounded, haunch, paunch and squeal, with impressionistic photographs of the Chicago stockyards in action by able staff photographer Margaret Bourke-White...